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National Healthcare Safety Network

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Tracking system to help CDC monitor hospital med use

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new antibiotic use tracking system for hospitals, designed to increase the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing. The system

CDC will study HAI prevalence, antimicrobial use

For the first time since the 1980s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to conduct two surveys to obtain national estimates of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevalence